Lindsey’s father, Michael ‘the Body Broker’ Lohan arrested FLORIDA RETIREMENT COMES EARLY – April 23, 2021 - Said Aronberg, “Mr. Lohan was investigated by our Sober Homes Task Force and he’s being charged with receiving kickbacks for referring patients to drug treatment. Pa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 27 2021Celebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabTrauma
West Virginia overdose deaths set new record amid pandemic WHEN WILL IT STOP? – April 22, 2021 - Data analysis published in the American Journal of Public Health, which analyzed overdose deaths across 31 states, found West Virginia’s increase during that month to be si... Read More...April 27 2021CoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMental HealthOverdoseTrauma
How One Man Overcame His Drug Addictions by Faith HIGHER POWER WORKS – April 22, 2021 - At the age of 20, Barr was held down by a group of friends while they injected heroin into his veins, which started his 22-year drug addiction. At the height of his addicti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 27 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Lindsay Lohan’s father Michael arrested for steering patients to rehab firms WATCH – ALL IN A DAY'S WORK – April 23, 2021 - Said Aronberg, “Mr. Lohan was investigated by our Sober Homes Task Force and he’s being charged with receiving kickbacks for referring patients to drug treatment. Patie... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 27 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
OxyContin Owners Only Worth $11 Billion LIVING BODY SNATCHERS – April 20, 2021 - Members of the Sackler family who own bankrupt OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma LP are worth approximately $11 billion, documents released Tuesday by a congressional commit... Read More...April 27 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Former Incarcerated, Drug Addict and Dealer Shares Story of Sobriety and Success “YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, ANTHONY BROWN” – April 17, 2021 - Growing up in Ohio to a single mother who was an alcoholic and suffered from depression, Brown never met his father and was the victim of severe physical ab... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
From Yale to Wall Street to homelessness. NOW HE’S RISING UP – April 17, 2021 - Lost his business, his home, the car he was living in, and landed on the streets of Los Angeles. For about six years, home for him and his common-law husband was a le... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Drug companies to finally face first opioid trial MAKING MONEY BURYING OUR CHILDREN – April 16, 2021 - J&J in a statement called its marketing of the drugs “appropriate and responsible,” Israel-based Teva said it will defend itself against these “unproven ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsTrauma
Peer Workers, Better Outcomes ONE ON ONE – April 3, 2021 - Peers are a growing workforce in behavioral health, with an estimated 30,000 or so workers employed nationwide. Additionally, over three-quarters of states reimburse peer services t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecovery
“Without sobriety, this album or this band wouldn’t exist.” ROYAL BLOOD – April 16, 2021 - “There are people in my life now who have got sober, and now helping fucking crack addicts,” says Kerr. “It’s amazing. Someone reached out to me that way. I feel like I have a res... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
FDA’s Comic Attempt to Terrify Teen Vapers SMOKE GETS IN THEIR EYES – April 7, 2021 - “No one noticed at first,” the comic reads in the beginning. “The changes were subtle.” So subtle, in fact, that a basketball player emanates billowing clouds of green... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Drug Abuse and AddictionjuulRecoverysmokingVaping
My parents were addicted to heroin, and I had a happy childhood. IT’S ALL IN THE BOOK – April 12, 2021 - Audrey told me they fought a lot when he stayed with her. She didn’t want him doing drugs in her house, and often noticed cash missing. “I was so furious with him when yo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionInterview
Non-Profit Trains 50,000 in Addiction Recovery Support HAND TO HAND COMPASSION – April 14, 2021 - HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, New England non-profit, The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), has developed an industry-leading training department that has ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
True Works of Genius: Global Sober Books THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS – April 13, 2021 - Peter T. has authored eight books, and very few folks know his full name. Such is a life and a lifestyle shaped by Alcoholics Anonymous. In early 2020, j... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Canada’s overdose and illicit drug crisis WATCH – HARM REDUCTION ARGUMENT – April 15, 2021 - Five years after B.C. declared the overdose and illicit drug crisis a public health emergency, a panel of community advocates discuss how far Canada has come i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdose
‘A Tsunami Of Cocaine’ LISTEN – JUST ANOTHER KILO AT THE DEALERS – APRIL 14, 2021 - A joint report by think tank InSight Crime and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, an NGO based in Switzerland, said that the com... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021CoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionintervention
“Fentanyl Is Here:” Vegas Suffers 200% Surge In Overdose Deaths LEAVING LAS VEGAS FOREVER – April 17, 2021 - “Clark County fentanyl deaths are on par with the “alarming” 30% increase in total overdose deaths in 2020, when 768 people succumbed to them, compared with 591 in 2... Read More...April 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMental HealthOverdoseTrauma
Teenage Brains Especially Vulnerable to Marijuana ACTUALLY A NO BRAINER – March 29, 2021 - The new study, published in JAMA Pediatrics and led by a team of scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, sought to gain a better understanding of how adolesc... Read More...April 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaMental Healthsmokingteenagers
Unique donation helps local women recover from addiction WATCH – UPLIFTING STORY – April 16, 2021 - “I know that it might make you blush a little bit, but they’re one of the things we don’t realize ‘oh wow that’s really a need’,” said Jessica Stump, the intake coordi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
19 Celebs Who Struggled With Addiction ACTING NATURALLY – April 13, 2021 - Most people at least know someone who suffers from an addiction, but it’s often not talked about in our culture. In an effort to help break barriers associated with addiction... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Lena Dunham celebrated three years of sobriety NAKED SOUL – April 12, 2021 - Lena Dunham is ready for mental health to not be considered a secret anymore. The multitalented star revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show that she at first was resistant to seek tre... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery Advocate
A Higher Power Outage: Zoom Meetings & Spirituality by Christopher Dale WHAT WOULD BILL W. DO? – April 20, 2021 - Undoubtedly, Bill would be impressed with, and grateful for, the technology. But unlike an airborne Washington, for Bill the novelty would soon w... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Biden’s ‘blunt’ opposition to marijuana legalization LOCK DEM UP? – April 16, 2021 - “I want to make my arguments to him, as many other advocates will,” Schumer said. “But at some point we’re going to move forward, period.” Schumer is likely worried, at least ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaMental HealthRecovery
Virginia Has Legalized Marijuana LISTEN – SLIMS OUT - BLUNTS IN – April 8, 2021 - Michael Wilson at United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 says prohibiting worker misclassification and union busting actually fits in nicely with the purpo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaRecoverysmoking
Gnarly Side Effects of Smoking Pot Every Day STUCK IN THE WEEDS – April 17, 2021 - It’s important to note that smoking marijuana doesn’t come without risks, particularly if you do it every day. Here is what could possibly happen, so you can be aware of th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaMental HealthRecovery
Chauvin Defense ‘Weaponized’ Stigma For Black Americans JUSTICE DEFERRED IS JUSTICE DENIED – April 16, 2021 - When George Floyd’s girlfriend Courteney Ross took the stand for the prosecution, she described the couple’s struggle with drugs as part of the nation’s dea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsRecovery
OXY Maker Agrees to Pay BILLION$ WATCH – ADDICTION FOR PROFITS – March 25, 2021 - Purdue had allegedly paid doctors to write more opioid prescriptions, according to the three federal criminal charges the company pleaded guilty to in November. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
In My Hometown, Opioids Are Still Stealing Lives THREE WEEKS LATER IT HAPPENED AGAIN – April 14, 2021 - “Nobody wants their child’s life defined in one moment of a bad decision,” Ms. Whyte said. “My daughter was more than one night, more than an overdose. She... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecovery
How DMX Found God MAY HIS MEMORY BE A BLESSING – April 13, 2021 - so he found himself “possessed by the darker side,” bound to a cycle of drug dependence and insufficient rehab. Fame changed his life, but not in many of the ways... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthOverdoserapRecoveryTrauma
John Stamos: ‘Sobriety Helped’ Me Get Married & Settle Down THE PROMISES COMING TRUE – April 16, 2021 - John Stamos credits his sobriety to his decision to get married and have children. The “Fuller House” actor, 57, joined Howard Stern on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Ster... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab